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Wolf Children
Why this pick
Like Maquia, it frames motherhood as a tender, difficult act of letting children become themselves, using fantastical premises for intimate, time-spanning emotion.
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MOVIE2018 1h 55m JPN
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Why this pick
Its luminous hand-drawn beauty and aching awareness of impermanence closely suit Maquia’s poetic fantasy, where love makes fleeting earthly life feel overwhelmingly precious.
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In This Corner of the World
Why this pick
A delicately observed young woman’s life is shaped by forces beyond her control; its restrained animation and accumulating grief echo Maquia’s humane, bittersweet emotional scale.
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Why this pick
This spare, storybook-dark fantasy finds profound tenderness in an unlikely guardian-child bond, with the same sense that love persists inside a beautiful, hostile world.
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The Anthem of the Heart
Why this pick
From Maquia writer Mari Okada, this is another emotionally direct story of wounds, isolation and connection, trading epic fantasy for a carefully earned adolescent catharsis.
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01 / THE STORY
I weave my life with yours.
Though only 15, Maquia knows she will live for centuries without aging past adolescence. She belongs to the Iorph, a clan of ageless beings just like her. Maquia's elders warn her not to fall in love with anyone outside their realm, unless she wishes to encounter true loneliness in the end. But fate pushes Maquia out into the mortal world one night, when an invading territory separates her from the clan. There she discovers an orphaned baby, Ariel, and takes him in as her own child. From this point, Maquia will suffer extreme heartbreak in the name of motherhood, as she watches Ariel grow and seeks to reconnect with her lost Iorph friends, all torn apart by the cruel world of Mesate.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Lang (voice)
Manaka Iwami
Maquia (voice)
Tomokazu Sugita
Isol (voice)
Miyuki Sawashiro
Rashine (voice)
Rina Satô
Mido (voice)
Ai Kayano
Leilia (voice)
Hiroaki Hirata
Baro (voice)
Yoko Hikasa
Tita (voice)